I apologize for two things:

1. First, is the fact that we have been on a whitelist for about the past 18 hours. If you do not already know, someone came on the server and crashed it with a hacked client. In the crash, the users.yml file for GroupManager was lost, and all ranks were reset. Luckily, GM automatically backs up all files, so we were all set with that.
2. I also apologize for my lack of a reaction to the situation. I went straight from a track meet to tutoring, so I didn't have any time with homework to fix it last night. I got to it as fast as I could when I got home from school. Luckily we had the backups so I didn't have to rewrite it

But now it's fixed, so we don't need to worry. Obviously, the hacker was dealt with, and now

As many of you know, cabbagemonster9 has been working as a mod on Arcator for a very long time (47 weeks and 6 days as of today). He has consistently banned a steady amount of griefers, hackers, etc. Because of his hard work and dedication to the server network, cabbagemonster9 has been promoted to the rank of admin! Thank you cabbagemonster9 for being such a great moderator. We hope you will continue your great work as an administrator of the Arcator network.

Okay, I am losing hair over all these Hunger Games posts. So, stop making them! GRAH! This will be the official Hunger Games thread-post-blog. Any new posts will be deleted. Unmercifully. So, yes, a Hunger Games IS planned for the server. But it is in early stages of development. And to clear things up, an Arcator server must be run, AKA MC1, MC2, or MC3, for it to be openly advertised here. If you are caught making your own server and advertising without our consent, you will be banned.

Now that the boring part is over, I guess we can get to the details. Unless I'm mistaken, there is a Hunger Games map, and If I find it, it will be posted here -----> http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic /1181365-pvpsurv-1000-dls-the-minecraft-hunger-games/<-----. If not, we will make one.

Each Arcator server can hold 15 people. MC1 might be able to hold more, but that would include a lot of work from the Owners with SSH, and I'm not sure Fela's opinion on this. MC2 is non-existent, but Kieraan may or may not be allowed to run it for this circumstance. MC3 can hold 15, but anything over it and it will become unplayable.

I'm also unsure of the number of players that want to participate. I've seen a lot of numbers thrown around, so I'll go with 12 to start. If this goes against the book, a logical reason, I'll change it. If you wish to play, post in the comments, and I will host a drawing of everyone who commented, and 12 lucky members will get to play

I've seen the Hunger Games the LP'ers played, and honestly, it was a fail. The Mods towards the end of the game were giving out diamonds sword, EXP, and spawning 100 creepers on people. I don't want that happening again. So, I've decided out of the 10 people, you can choose 1 to support. You will choose one (1) item to give to the player at any point of the games. Start, finish, or never. Its your decision. You can also choose to HURT 1 player as well. If that means distracting them, or throwing an egg or two at them, so be it.

I think this could be a lot of fun if handled the right way. So, lets get started! Also, thanks to Ad_Man99 for the original idea. This post is just to sort through the other posts that have been appearing.

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GameKeepers (To be filled by Staff [Admin+]):
1) Dweson
2) Banana937 (also hosting the server and will handle technical problems)
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Hi, its me, and I just want to put some things out here, so everyone can see it. Its a lot of complaining, but it needs to be said. I consider each of you people out there my friend. Some I like more then others, and that can become apparent at times, obviously. But I feel MC3 is really not helping me maintain a good relationship with my other staff members, and its hurting the trust we have in each other. Some people will take arguments too harshly, and I'm sure some of you saw what happened to me when it happened today. So, I'm going to make 2 statements about what I want to happen with me, and with MC3.

1) [Removed because after reading it, it all sounded pretty stupid]

2) MC3 is going to be Kyle-less. Its pretty apparent about 95% of the server think that I cheat because I have about 1/2 the diamonds others have, and that means I cheat. The reasons they are accusing me of don't fit in with their arguments, but if users are bothering Owners that should be working on MC1, and coming to me about how I play on my unofficial server, there's obviously an issue. If its mine or others, I don't care, so I'm going to be the bigger man here and just go along with the bullshit that is running my server.

MC3 in general is pissing a lot of people off, and it turn its making my life 100x harder. I imagined MC3 being a fun factions server where faction fight to the death, and they over take each other, or beak away to fight some more. What its really turned into is who has the bigger dick, and if you think you can say I don't, then your obviously cheating in some way. I'm going to put the past behind, and just focus on keeping my server running and operational. I'm sorry it had to come to this, but peoples choices are ones they'll agree on, or ones they'll hate for the remainder of their time here. But that's what makes us human; the ability to see that we made mistakes in the past, and depending on our character, forgiving others for them or hating them even more.

All in all I don't know if MC3 is worth the challenge anymore. Constantly fighting with people I thought would side with me is wearing me down, and slowly making me turn into a hate-filled rage-machine. So I'm just going to stop. Sorry if I somehow made you think I cheated in the last month, by finding your base, or killing you, but thats how a faction server it. Get the fuck over it, or move on

~Kyle

Apparently I wasn't clear enough when I added /sethome back into MC3, so this post'll clear this up, so no one has to fight about it anymore...

DO NOT /SETHOME INSIDE ANOTHER FACTIONS TERRITORY

Thanks!

Also, there are 2 new "secret" plugins. I will give you a hint what they do however. Thieves and physics. Just Sayain'

~Kyle